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SpaceX Starship the talk of remote Australian island as Elon Musk’s engineers sent to retrieve it

SpaceX Starship the talk of remote Australian island as Elon Musk’s engineers sent to retrieve it

Christmas Island locals who woke to see the spacecraft floating off the coast hope global attention will encourage tourists Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast…

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Africa: The Soil's Early Warning System - Microbes Can Predict Desertification Before Plants Start to Die

[The Conversation Africa] Microbial ecology (the study of how tiny microbes interact with each other and their environment) underpins the health of every ecosystem on Earth. The microbes living in soil recycle nutrients, support plant…

AllAfrica

Hot nights are stealing your sleep and affecting your health. Here’s how

Euronews

Hot nights are stealing your sleep and affecting your health. Here’s how

The heat-stress season is getting longer. And heatwaves don’t just affect us during the day. Researchers are increasingly warning about the consequences of hotter nights for sleep and health.

Euronews

UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report

UK relies on heat-stressed countries for fruit and veg it could grow itself – report

Food Foundation sounds alarm over supply risks and price shocks as about 40% of Britain’s food is imported The UK is vulnerable to food price shocks because of its dependence on imports of fruit and vegetable from countries even more…

Indonesia calls for collective action on climate change at BRICS forum

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Indonesia calls for collective action on climate change at BRICS forum

Indonesian Minister of Environment Moh Jumhur Hidayat emphasized the need for collective responsibility to tackle ...

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Troops foil abductions, rescue 7 in Zamfara

Daily Trust

Troops foil abductions, rescue 7 in Zamfara

Troops of the Joint Task Force North West, Operation FANSAN YAMMA, have foiled separate attempts by terrorists to abduct civilians in Zamfara State, rescuing victims and neutralising an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted along a…

Daily Trust

The flag culture wars have come to an unlikely place: progressive Iceland | Alexander Hurst

The flag culture wars have come to an unlikely place: progressive Iceland | Alexander Hurst

Ahead of the Nordic nation’s EU referendum, the Icelandic flag has been co-opted by the far right To enter Reykjavik’s Grafarvogur Lutheran church, worshippers and visitors are invited to make their way down 16 steps painted in the rainbow…

RNZ

Govt considers u-turn on climate change in school curriculum

The education minister says climate change was included when she looked at the final version of the curriculums before they were published.

RNZ

Before and after photos show impact of SpaceX rocket that slammed into Moon

Before and after photos show impact of SpaceX rocket that slammed into Moon

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of a crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.

New Zealand passes law blocking climate action against companies: ‘dark day for democracy’

South China Morning Post

New Zealand passes law blocking climate action against companies: ‘dark day for democracy’

New Zealand has passed hotly contested legislation to block lawsuits that seek to hold companies liable for climate change harm. The right-wing coalition government’s legal amendment cleared a final hurdle in parliament on Tuesday night by…

South China Morning Post

SpaceX recovers rocket that splashed down off Christmas Island

SpaceX recovers rocket that splashed down off Christmas Island

An operation by Elon Musk's SpaceX and the federal government successfully retrieves the rocket after it landed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Western Australia.

Ocean heat waves threaten to supercharge storm season in Europe

Japan Times